The retail association calls for shopping vouchers for more than 500 euros to be distributed to every citizen - in order to increase consumption again after the corona pandemic.
The German retail association HDE has reportedly campaigned for every German
citizen to receive a € 500 shopping
voucher.
This is
intended to
stimulate
the
consumerism *
of Germans
, reported
Tagesschau.de
on the occasion of a corresponding proposal.
Retail is proposing shopping vouchers of 500 euros per citizen
"An additional income of 500 euros per inhabitant would mean a demand impulse of up to 40 billion euros," said the managing director of the German Trade Association (HDE), Stefan Genth, the "Handelsblatt" on Monday, as the
AFP
news
agency
reported.
Such vouchers are conceivable "when the pandemic is better under control again and people want to go shopping again".
The additional income should not be offset against other transfers, Genth said, according to the report.
He suggested that
employees
receive the money via the payroll,
so that minors could also be recorded
via the number of
child allowances
.
For
pensioners
, a payment through the pension fund would be possible, transfer recipients could be reached through the employment offices.
Freelancers, self-employed persons, other entrepreneurs and other persons
could use a similar application and payment procedure as it was developed for the emergency aid to
self-employed persons,
said the HDE managing director
AFP
continued.
Genth therefore rejected a case-by-case test for neediness as being too bureaucratic.
It is about a "big and clear signal for a new beginning" after the crisis.
"Inaccuracies" would also have to be accepted.
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Shopping vouchers against consumption congestion after the corona crisis?
Shopping vouchers against the consumption congestion?
There is already something similar in the USA, as
reported by
Tagesschau.de
: The government in Washington has issued free checks for $ 1,400 to all Americans with an annual income of less than $ 80,000.
Some of the money will go to consumption, the mainstay of the US economy.
Consumer vouchers to stimulate the economy?
This also meets with skepticism.
Because, according to the report, there is already a "consumption backlog" in Germany - and the reasons for this are quite complex: For
fear of the uncertain future and job
loss
, many Germans even
hoarded cash
and had significantly more money in their bank accounts than before the Coronavirus. Crisis, it says among other things on
Tagesschau.de.
The
lack of shopping opportunities in the corona crisis
would also contribute to the consumption
backlog
.
Most of the time,
vacation trips
were hardly possible anyway.
The question is what the shopping vouchers brought into play could do in the end, so the criticism.
In any case, it remains with a proposal.
There is another
trend in the corona crisis
: In fact, cashless payment is becoming increasingly popular in Germany, too, reports
Tagesschau.de
- for hygienic reasons, but also because
more
purchases are made
over the
Internet
in times of the
corona lockdown
.
(ahu) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
Sources: APF, Handelsblatt, Tagesschau.de
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